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Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki

Visit the wiki: http://openeducation.wiki/wiki/Main_Page This week sees the official relaunch of the Virtual Education Wiki on March 9th.   Matic Media is excited to re-engage the Wiki community and begin building upon the latest information the wiki holds. The wiki is devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) … Continue reading Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki

Happy New Year for 2022 including education

As I write this based in the UK in early January 2022 here like in many other countries we are wrestling with the issues caused by the rise of the Omicron variant of Covid. Yet one can be reasonably optimistic at present that 2022 will be a bit closer to what used to be called … Continue reading Happy New Year for 2022 including education

New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER

Responding to demand from researchers and policy analysts we are gradually copying all the public reports from the EU-funded POERUP project and all our associated OER-relevant projects onto a repository called Policies for OER Uptake. This is hosted on the Canvas LMS which we use for much of our teaching and content development for ourselves … Continue reading New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER

Adult Education and Open Educational Resources – new report by Sero for European Parliament

Adult Education and Open Educational Resources is a 140-page “Study”, written by Sero, released by the European Parliament research office on 15 October 2015. It reviews the current use of Open Educational Resources in Adult Education in Europe (with a focus on Member States of the European Union – including the UK as one of … Continue reading Adult Education and Open Educational Resources – new report by Sero for European Parliament

Distance learning data collection and enrollment patterns in Australia, UK, and USA – and Canada?

There is a very interesting article from OBHE, the Observatory for Borderless Higher Education, on distance learning enrollments in Australia, UK, and USA - featured on their front page. This looks at enrollments and the split between domestic and international students in a way maybe familiar to those used to HESA statistical tables. The full article is … Continue reading Distance learning data collection and enrollment patterns in Australia, UK, and USA – and Canada?

Open Educational Resources in Adult Education/Adult Learning in the European Union – information wanted

I have been commissioned at Sero to do a report for the Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament on OER in Adult Education in the EU, to report by mid-March 2015. In this I will be assisted by Sero colleagues. Obviously we shall leverage on POERUP and on three very relevant studies done for … Continue reading Open Educational Resources in Adult Education/Adult Learning in the European Union – information wanted